from Thursday, March19th of the year2009.

Mrs. Obama, who said that she never had a vegetable garden before, said the idea for it came from her experiences as a working mother trying to feed her daughters, Malia and Sasha, a good diet. Eating out three times a week, ordering a pizza, having a sandwich for dinner took it’s toll. The children’s pediatrician told her she needed to be thinking about nutrition.

Ar-r-r-rgh. I just scoured all of Burros’s’s’s’s other article’s’s’s’s in the Time’s’s’s’s for the la’st few months’s’s and she seem’s to have gotte’n it right all the rest of the times. ‘. But seriously. The shit has been up now for three hours and nobody has dealt with it. Three hours’ time!

I need 2 calm down. I am going to listen to PÃ¤rt. (This is not to say that PÃ¤rt is calming; in fact, I find it incredibly exciting, but, you know, I have been worked into a Tiz.)

I love this piece. For recent PÃ¤rt, it is extremely controlled, and yet, makes use of dovetailing and layering in a way I deeply crave. I like how the instruments are non-essential: they could be there, they don’t have to be there, they are there, they aren’t there. There is something deeply satisfying about the repetition v. non-repetition, too, like this Bob Wilson tribute to Philip Glass:

Mrs. Obama, who said that she never had a vegetable garden before, said the idea for it came from her experiences as a working mother trying to feed her daughters, Malia and Sasha, a good diet. Eating out three times a week, ordering a pizza, having a sandwich for dinner all took their toll. The childrenâ€™s pediatrician told her she needed to be thinking about nutrition.

I’ve been tiptoeing around PÃ¤rt (I’ll need to deconstruct that phrase) for years. This is it: the entry into a composer’s work (proper possessive) through one moment. How can something so lush be so devastating? Like Wolfie’s final Requiem or a Bergman landscape. Many thanks. I did double check the gerund as well, and it was good. Now I’ll need to edit down those (damn) parenthetical phrases.

Hi! I’ve just discovered your music. Love at first listen…
I found this blog looking for informations about you.
Speaking of repetition: I’m writing my final “tesi” (dissertation) in philosophy. It’s a work about Steve Reich, aesthetic formalism and its limits. I found a very interesting book by Robert Fink, in wich he suggests a cultural-historical hermeneutic of repetition in musical minimalism.
I would really know your opinion about this…
You can find introduction and chapter 1 here: